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Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIA?
Written by Ernesto on September 25, 2007
Demonoid.com, one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers has allegedly been taken offline
by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA).
Both the tracker and the website have been unresponsive for nearly 24 hours now.
Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIAAs of now it is still unsure what exactly happened,
but the popular Dutch news site nu.nl reports that the CRIA is responsible for the
downtime.
TorrentFreak contacted some of the Demonoid administrators, but they are not
sure what happened either. It is certainly possible that Demonoid’s Canadian ISP pulled
the plug after being pressured by the CRIA. The ISP said before that they would
take it down if they would receive complaints.
Right now, the Demonoid server is still pinging, but the ISP could have firewalled
the everything after they received some serious legal threats. Deimos,
the founder and the head admin of the site is unreachable and has not
responded yet.
This is not the first time Demonoid suffers major downtime due to
pressure from the anti-piracy lobby. Demonoid had to move its
servers from The Netherlands to Canada in June after The Dutch
anti-piracy outfit BREIN filed a subpoena against Demonoid’s ISP.
BREIN had asked the ISP to take Demonoid offline and hand over
the administrator’s personal details, but Demonoid relocated
their servers before any harm was done.
Unfortunately, it now seems that Canada is not the “safe haven” as
they expected it to be. It is likely that Demonoid has to relocate
again, for the second time in three months.
Demonoid tracks over a million .torrent files and is the second
largest BitTorrent tracker after The Pirate Bay. The shutdown of the
site and tracker is a huge blow for the BitTorrent community that
lost 2 of the most popular BitTorrent trackers (TorrentBox was
taken offline for US users a few hours ago) within 24 hours.
More info soon!
Update: Still no response from Deimos, the CRIA or Demonoid’s ISP.
Update: The CRIA refuses to comment at this point, they don’t confirm or deny anything.
Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIA?
Written by Ernesto on September 25, 2007
Demonoid.com, one of the most popular BitTorrent trackers has allegedly been taken offline
by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA).
Both the tracker and the website have been unresponsive for nearly 24 hours now.
Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIAAs of now it is still unsure what exactly happened,
but the popular Dutch news site nu.nl reports that the CRIA is responsible for the
downtime.
TorrentFreak contacted some of the Demonoid administrators, but they are not
sure what happened either. It is certainly possible that Demonoid’s Canadian ISP pulled
the plug after being pressured by the CRIA. The ISP said before that they would
take it down if they would receive complaints.
Right now, the Demonoid server is still pinging, but the ISP could have firewalled
the everything after they received some serious legal threats. Deimos,
the founder and the head admin of the site is unreachable and has not
responded yet.
This is not the first time Demonoid suffers major downtime due to
pressure from the anti-piracy lobby. Demonoid had to move its
servers from The Netherlands to Canada in June after The Dutch
anti-piracy outfit BREIN filed a subpoena against Demonoid’s ISP.
BREIN had asked the ISP to take Demonoid offline and hand over
the administrator’s personal details, but Demonoid relocated
their servers before any harm was done.
Unfortunately, it now seems that Canada is not the “safe haven” as
they expected it to be. It is likely that Demonoid has to relocate
again, for the second time in three months.
Demonoid tracks over a million .torrent files and is the second
largest BitTorrent tracker after The Pirate Bay. The shutdown of the
site and tracker is a huge blow for the BitTorrent community that
lost 2 of the most popular BitTorrent trackers (TorrentBox was
taken offline for US users a few hours ago) within 24 hours.
More info soon!
Update: Still no response from Deimos, the CRIA or Demonoid’s ISP.
Update: The CRIA refuses to comment at this point, they don’t confirm or deny anything.
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